Cosmic Rays: Three Lectures being a revision of the 1936 Page-Barbour Lectures of the University of Virginia and the 1937 John Joly Lectures of Trinity College Dubkin
by Millikan, R. A
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York/Cambridge: Macmillan/Cambridge University Press, 1939. Three of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's later lectures: Lecture 1 is on the discovery & significance of cosmic rays; lecture 2 on "superpower particles" (high-energy particles); lecture 3 on the Earth's magnetic field and cosmic-ray energies. First American edition. Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, endsheets tanned; price-clipped jacket shows some edgewear, light chipping, a few short tears with associated creasing; minor waterstain. text clean; viii, 134 pages; index, tables, figures, b/w plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- p1271
- Title
- Cosmic Rays: Three Lectures being a revision of the 1936 Page-Barbour Lectures of the University of Virginia and the 1937 John Joly Lectures of Trinity College Dubkin
- Author
- Millikan, R. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan/Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York/Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Physics, History of Science, Particle Physics, Magnetism, Magnetic Field
- Size
- Octavo
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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- Gilt
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- Chipping
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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